1.   Utilities, another defensive sector that benefits from falling interest rates as well, bucked the down trend, too.

2.   Westphal said the Suns are in a down trend, but every team experiences them.

3.   Bucking the down trend, Jakarta shares ended higher for the fifth straight day on telecom stock buying.

4.   Worse than expected trade figures have hastened the down trend and put a question mark over the strength of the economic recovery.

5.   London share prices relapsed into a down trend this week, and with the results season just around the corner market players are expecting little near-term relief.

6.   Nihon Keizai suggested the down trend in microchip prices may have halted.

7.   Statements by a banker reported in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday sent the market on a down trend Wednesday and it continued Thursday and Friday.